Commission Implementing Decision of 2 May 2012 amending Decision 2011/207/EU establishing a specific control and inspection programme related to the recovery of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean (notified under document C(2012) 2800) (2012/246/EU)

Article 1

Decision 2011/207/EU is amended as follows:

1.

the title is replaced by the following:

‘Commission Implementing Decision of 29 March 2011 establishing a specific control and inspection programme related to the recovery of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean’;

2.

in Article 3, point 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.

all catches, landings, transfers, transhipments and caging operations, including sampling programmes and pilot studies;’;

3.

in Article 4, the following points 9 and 10 are added:

‘9.

the implementation of pilot studies on how to better estimate both the number and weight of bluefin tuna at the point of capture;

10.

the implementation of sampling programmes and/or alternative programmes at the time of caging in order to improve the counting and the weight estimations of the caged fish.’;

4.

in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. Member State intending to conduct surveillance and inspect fishing vessels in the waters under the jurisdiction of another Member State in the framework of a Joint Deployment Plan shall notify its intentions to the contact point of the coastal Member State concerned, as referred to in Article 80, point 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and to the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA).’;

5.

Article 10 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 10 Information of infringements

Member States whose officials detect any infringement while carrying out an inspection on the activities listed in Article 3 shall inform without delay the Commission of the date of inspection and the details of the infringement.’;

6.

in Article 14, the words ‘the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA)’ are replaced by the words ‘the EFCA’.

7.

Article 15 is amended as follows:

(a)

in paragraph 1, the words ‘the CFCA’ are replaced by the words ‘the EFCA’;

(b)

in paragraph 3, the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:

‘3. This report shall contain the following information, in accordance with the table set out in Annex IV:’;

8.

Annexes I and II are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.